Facebook is taking steps to help crack down on and reduce the damage done by revenge porn. The new tools introduced today will allow the company to prevent any unauthorized images from being shared once reported by users.

If you've been living under a rock for the last several years, revenge porn is the sharing of intimate images publicly without permission. This is usually done to shame the involved person in revenge for some act, usually a breakup. It can cause severe emotional distress, as well as other societal, personal, and professional repercussions. Facebook is hoping to cut down on the occurrences of revenge porn that appear on its platforms.

All an end user has to do is report an intimate image that he or she suspects was shared without permission. From there, specially trained employees at Facebook will review and remove the photo if it violates the company's community guidelines. If the picture happens to have been shared without authorization, the poster's account could be disabled. After this, Facebook will use "photo-matching technologies" to curb any other attempts to post the infringing image(s) on the main site/app, Instagram, or Messenger. Posters will receive a warning if they attempt to share an illicit photo after it's been identified.

Furthermore, Facebook will offer support services for the victims of this behavior. These new tools were developed after many talks and meetings with several online safety experts and the company hopes to implement new technologies in the future to prevent harm to its users.

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Comments

Dustin Mingo

So send Facebook your nudes in case you think they might be shared without your authorization, so they can have a special team review them and block them from being shared in the future? That's a step forward and a step back, it seems like they should be able to automate that process and cut out the humans

MJ

Ummmm There is no sending of nudes to Facebook. One reports a photo that already has been posted on Facebook. How could humans not be involved?

Morten Ulv

Algorithms? Though it might not be good enough on something like this that I'm sure is very distressing for the people it happens to, so good on them for using the resources to do it properly.

Anyway, isn't nudes not allowed to be posted on Facebook anyway? It this in the cases where Facebook's algorithms aren't good enough?

Dehaha1

This isn't just for Facebook though, it's also for Messenger and Instagram. This would mean no more revenge sharing of these explicit photos via personal messages between friends or posting them on a popular photo sharing platform for all to see. I doubt they prevent people from sharing any kind of photo via messenger, and as Instagram is also supposed to be for art, they probably allow nudity there to not make that artistic crowd mad.

MJ

I was using the OP's word... The article said "intimate" photos which doesn't have to be any type of nude at all.

Morten Ulv

Makes sense.

Jay T

I think this is a step in the right direction for Facebook. The "photo-matching technologies" also sounds like a good step, to prevent people from taking a screenshot and then sharing that, instead of the original image.

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From there, specially trained employees at Facebook will review and remove the photo if it violates the company's community guidelines.

That's code for , if the employees in question don't fapp to the image/s or nut within a certain amount of time , the image will be deemed to violate the company's community guidelines.

Bruce Wayne

"specially trained employees at Facebook will review and remove the photo"

So they're basically paid to watch porn. Interesting.

Nathan J

It should be noted that, while the wording of your post is funny, there are, I don't know, I'm guessing hundreds of people (it's not many, overall) who work in law enforcement and technology in "cyber crimes" division, and it's hard, heartbreaking work. The regular adult on adult home video that was shared as revenge for breakup probably doesn't even phase them, good or bad, because they see so much stuff that wrecks them... usually stuff involving children, and/or violence.

There was a big story about this a month or two ago... I think it was Microsoft that had a contractor who worked in this capacity and sued for distress... it's almost never employees, these people are often brought on as contractors, because of the turnaround. These people tend to burn out after a few months. It's one of the most soul-crushing things you can do for a living. And it doesn't help that there are dozens of people on 4chan and reddit who actually want the job (either because they like the porn they'd be hired to identify, or they think they're "up to the challenge") and would probably not be right for it (well, definitely in the former case).

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